Re: no more "mea culpas"?

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

My experience online is that things ebb and flow (Crap!  when I say that
I'm reminded of how long I've been doing this online stuff and if Net-years
are the same as Dog-years, I have serious age issues) ;-)    When new, a
medium tends to produce tons of excitement and traffic and when something
else newer comes along, a crowd moves to "newer" leaving other systems
behind.  If you remember, there have been forums, several different email
systems, and now LinkedIn, Facebook, some Twitter chat and a Google+ group
was started as well.  Everything has cycles.  Some stay on the older
systems - some move.

With an infinite online universe of choices, there's (happily) something
for everyone and we all gravitate to the system we're most comfortable
with.  IMHO - there is no "one best solution" but we each have preferences.

Personally, I want to enroll in the curmudgeon-corps that seems to be
forming here.   I find the business aspect of this list refreshing and the
side-comments can be quite amusing.

For me - the signal to noise ratio is perfect and if I need some info - you
folks are my first choice.

This list has been quiet over the past while as others have noted.  Some of
you are quite comfortable on FB or LI- and the bulk of the list members
have never participated here but successfully lurk. :-)

It's easy to change that. ;-)  Post some interesting links you've found -
no conversation necessary - simply share.

For example, I've been evaluating different Wordpress plugins on my test
site - and can tell you a ton of interesting ones (and some serious duds)
but I've not shared that data.  If you're interested, I can do that.

But by the same token - you folks run into tons of stuff I never see in
gardening, photography or tech - that we'd all be interested in.

So - if you want an active list- it's in your hands.

And as I'm about to go offline until we arrive in Savannah - let me wish
you all a very Happy New Year and may 2013 bring bountiful harvests.

Doug

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:35 AM, <ealicata@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You can also choose to receive zero email notifications and check the
> Facebook writers group when you have time. Another advantage.
>
> Facebook is a source of information like any other to anyone who works in
> media full-time, as I do. It's not perfect; it's not Satan.
>

Doug Green
Helping a million readers a month
http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com>
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